The Court of Human Rights will give judgment in the case of Mosley v United Kingdom on Tuesday 10 May 2011. The application was heard on Tuesday 11 January 2011. The central question was whether the United Kingdom had a positive obligation under Article 8 of the Convention to protect Mr Mosley’s privacy by providing for a legal duty on the News of the World to warn him in advance of publication in order to allow him to seek an injunction. Read the rest of this entry »

News International’s PR team must be thrilled that the super injunction has pushed phone hacking out of the national headlines. More than one media commentator has suggested that the newspapers – and not just Murdoch’s – are happy to divert attention away from that particular scandal.